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Constitution Party Endorses Dan Frank for Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District 2010

CARLISLE, PA - On Saturday, March 27th, Dan Frank officially declared his candidacy for U.S. Congress in Pennsylvania ’s 16th Congressional District by accepting the overwhelming nomination by members of the Constitution Party during their state meeting in Carlisle, PA. The Constitution Party is the third largest political party in terms of voter registration.

Mr. Frank, who also ran in 2008, is a major advocate of the Constitution Party’s conservative principles, particularly when it comes to upholding the Constitution with an emphasis added on protecting the Second Amendment and American jobs. He believes this country needs to be under the leadership of those who respect and pledge to maintain the ideals of the Founding Fathers. "When I ran in 2008, I stressed that our government officials were straying away from Constitutional principles and saw a trend wherein taking the Congressional Oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution of the United States’ has turned into nothing more than a formality. This shift away from our core principles has led to massive job losses due to economic downfall, company lay-offs, and jobs being sent overseas (a major focus of my campaign in 08).” Mr. Frank went on to say, “We have also been dealing with the worst abuse of power by our leaders, out-of-control government spending, incomprehensible attacks on our nation’s sovereignty, and increased threats to border security." He continued further, "These issues were central to my last campaign and many of these current problems I predicted. As current politicians have ignored their Oath of Office, these problems will only continue. If our country keeps moving in this direction, we will see an unparalleled loss of jobs, experience an even greater erosion of our sovereignty, and witness continued government expansion like never before seen in history!" More...

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My Phenomenal Speech Writer and Strategist Lara,
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What People Are Saying about Dan…

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Gun Owners of America gives Dan Frank the
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Recession Job Loss Estimate
Set to Rise

Labor Department Expected to Bump Up Unemployment Figure for Year Ending March
2009 to about 8 Million

US(AP) Job losses during the Great Recession have been huge and they're about to get bigger.

When the Labor Department releases the January unemployment report Friday, it will also update its estimate of jobs lost in the year that ended in March 2009. The number is expected to rise by roughly 800,000, raising the number of jobs shed during the recession to around 8 million. More

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Washington D.C. - Dan attended Ron Paul's Press Conference (September 10, 2008) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in support of Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin. "Ron is one of the few statesman in Washington D.C., I would be honored to join forces with him in congress to help fight for the cause of liberty."

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Campaign Help

We are looking for volunteers in each precinct to help share Dan's message of Liberty, Freedom, American Jobs, and American Sovereignty and Constitutional government, Dan is NOT beholden to political elites, political parties, special interest, or corporate America. He believes strongly that ALL Americans should have honest Constitutional representation. Please help us get word out, Dan, unlike congressman Joe Pitts, has not or will not take money from corporate elites, so Dan faces the challenge of running against Joe Pitts, which has raised $500,000 even after pledging he would not seek another term. As our jobs head overseas, Mr. Pitts is ensuring his job is safe. Apparently he is not done yet, can we afford sending more jobs offshore?

By placing a sign in your yard, you are supporting a candidate that stands for America first! American Jobs, American Sovereignty. If anyone would be so kind as to place one of our campaign yard signs in their yard, please contact the Dan Frank Campaign at DanF@DanFrankforCongress.com.

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Joe Pitts Minutes

 

Pitts (bank) roll: Fundraising flourishes as support slips

 

Mr. Pitts was asked if he could work for 35 cents an hour by Mr. Frank, of course he did not answer. "it's ok for him to vote on so-called free trade bills that throw Americans out on the street because it's their job going to foreign counters for cheap wages, not his. Knowing this, how anyone would Support this is unconscionable to me, Americans must take back control of the House of Representatives" Frank said.

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"A Republic, If You Can Keep It"

'The Wrecking Crew': How conservative Republicans let lobbyists gobbled up D.C.

"I am a free trader and believe that free trade helps our Nation and the nations of the world."

--Joe Pitts

 

Apparel workers in the U.S. make $9.56 an hour. El Salvador, apparel workers make $1.65. In communist China between 68 an 88 cents. (China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World: Ted C. Fishman)

 

Mr. Pitts stated:

 

"In spite of this, opposition to free trade exists in Congress because of the belief that American workers need protection to compete with workers abroad. This kind of zero sum understanding of trade has kept free trade from advancing and has prevented many throughout the world from realizing the mutual benefits that can come from free, fair, and open trade. In fact, American producers can compete with anyone in the world; they just need to have access to markets abroad."

 

Compete? Lets talk about communist China. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the average salary increase hovered around 14 percent from 2001 to 2006. The 2007 average salary of urban workers was 24,932 yuan ($3,679 a year) and the daily average was 99.31 yuan (14.15 U.S. dollars). Taking into account price rises, the average salary increase hit a six-year-high.

 

Western Sahara and the Free Trade Agreement

 

"Mr. Chairman, I am voting for the FTA because there is protection for the people and resources of Western Sahara and because I believe the free trade will help the people of Morocco and those of surrounding countries."

The people of Morocco? Who does Mr. Pitts represent? Former Congressman Tom Coburn gives insight in "Breach of Trust, "In Washington, power is a morphine. It dulls the senses, impairs judgment, and leads politicians to make choices that damage their own character and the machinery of democracy. It seems more power is needed each year to satisfy the addiction." This certainly would explain Mr. Pitts broken campaign promise, and although noble, his concern for the people of Morocco and those of surrounding countries. It is no doubt Mr. Pitts has betrayed the American people and more specifically the people from the 16th district. Careerism, arrogance of power, and blatant Constitution abuse is the problem, and Mr. Pitts is part of the political elite that must GO! He Supports NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, U.N., IMF - in others words, the globalist agenda.

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The World Trade Agreement is an international agreement with member's states to dictate international trade policy. Formally know as General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) which was originally created by the Bretton Woods Conference after World War II. The official stance for GATT/WTO is to reduce barriers to trade, however, I believe it reaches much deeper then that, as the WTO has trumped sovereign American law and certainly is not necessary for sincere free trade.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution states that Congress shall have the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations."

I see nothing in the Constitution stating Congress may abdicate or transfer their constitutional powers to another institution.

As stated above, the WTO official platform is to reduce tariff barriers, quantitative restrictions (i.e. explicit limits, or quotas) and finally subsidies on trade betweens nations though various agreements. Contrary to mainstream thinking on the WTO, the 1995 U.N. Commission on Global Governance report, Our Global Neighborhood, succinctly gave a clear indication of what the WTO truly is, "a crucial building block for global economic governance…The WTO and advanced regional groups such as the EU will increasingly be faced with these issues that dominate the international agenda in years to come: how to create rules for deep integration that go way beyond what has traditionally been thought of as 'trade.'" (emphasis mine).

We are already seeing the dangers of giving up our sovereignty, in December 2004 a delegation of U.S. cotton farmers had their day in court, not an American court, but a dispute resolution panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a 148-nation global institute headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Incredibly the U.S. farmers were coerced to appeal to a foreign "court," which resulted in the farmers ceding sovereignty to the global body.

The Delta Farm Press reported in December 7, 2004, a three-member panel WTO panel ruled in September of 2004, that a number of federal assistance programs for the cotton industry are "prohibited export subsidies" that created "significant suppression of world cotton prices in marketing years 1999-2002, causing serious prejudice to Brazil's interest."

A direct assault to American sovereignty, Pascal Lamy, the World Trade Organization director-general, says the U.S. Congress passed a bad farm bill, one that sends the wrong "signal." If the authors of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 needed any affirmation of their work, they don't have to look any farther.

Article 13 of the WTO agreement on Agriculture allows for governments to provide subsidies, however, the global body (WTO) claims authority to instill fines and taxes over sovereign countries and to nullify any subsidies it deems inappropriate.

Even pro World Trade Supporter Newt Gingrich admitted in his 1994 testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee, approval of the WTO was nothing less than a "transformational" moment and was far more than trade rules:

"I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority to a new organization. This is a transformational moment. I would feel better if the people who favor this would just be honest about the scale of change.... This is not just another trade agreement. This is adopting something which twice, once in the 1940s and once in the 1950s, the U.S. Congress rejected. I am not even saying that we should reject it; I, in fact, lean toward it. But I think we have to be very careful, because it is a very big transfer of power."

In addition, Economist Murray Rothbard succinctly nailed it best, "You don't need a treaty to have free trade."

Since the early 70s the U.S. have gone from a trade surplus to staggering trade deficits, and with the ilk's of the WTO have seen even greater trade deficits, having set a new record in 2005 at $725.8 billion.

This country fought a war because of taxation without representation; now with this egregious global body full of unelected (by the American people) foreign bureaucrats have control over our trade policies. Have we not come full circle? Have we not acquiescence our constitutional responsibilities to enforce our own trade laws? I believe so. The World Trade Organization, a Geneva-based body composed of foreign bureaucrats, will control our nation's economic destiny, which Mr. Pitts endorses, Both the Mr. Pitts and the WTO must GO!